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0410 Southern Tibet : vol.1
南チベット : vol.1
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greater and richer in important geographical matters than had been believed before.
Therefore the Emperor decided to have a reliable map made. He ordered two Lamas
who had learnt geometry and arithmetic in a mathematical academy which was under
the protection of his third son, to make the map of the whole country from Si-ning
to Lhasa and thence to the source of the Ganges and also ordered them to bring
him some water from that river. The work was carried out punctually. Not until
the year 1717, however, was the new map delivered to the Emperor, who sent it to
the missionary geographers. They found it by far superior to, and more reliable than
the map of 1711.¹

By means of using and checking all reliable itineraries from China to Tibet
the missionaries did their best to construct a map of the whole of Tibet, »the
exactitude of which was worthy of the attention of the public«, as nowhere else were
any details regarding towns, mountains, and rivers to be found. The map of Tibet
was added to the great map of the whole of China which in 1718 was presented to
the Emperor.

This map of China was engraved in Peking and the Jesuit Fathers sent a copy
to Paris, which was presented to the King and kept in his private library at Ver-
sailles. Du Halde had a copy of it made in Paris and sent to d'Anville, asking
him to reduce it and prepare it for publication. The Paris copy was, however, a
very incomplete extract of the original maps, and the geographical names had been
translated in Peking by somebody who did not know Chinese sufficiently.²

Klaproth tells us, that it is wrong to believe that the Jesuit map of Tibet
had no other foundation than the work of the two Lamas sent by Kang Hi to that
country. The material they brought to Peking was controlled and improved by other
persons whom Kang Hi had sent for the purpose of studying Tibet, as well as by
the itineraries of the Manchurian armies which, during his reign, pacified Tibet.³

From du Halde we learn that the Lama surveyors of Kang Hi had some
political difficulties to overcome during the latter part of their work. He says that
the grandson of Couchi Han, Talai Han, was attacked by the great Tsevang
Rabtan. Talai han had some 20,000 men, and Tsevang Rabtan's general only
5,000 or 6,000. But Talai han was defeated and killed and the country of